Since 2008, the Sierra Club's #Military Families Outdoors program has offered free trips for #vets

sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - july/august 2011 - a missing peace A Missing Peace Can wilderness adventure repair the ravages of war? By Reed McManus "A year and a half after returning stateside I still had nightmares. I'd go five or six days without sleep. I had the shakes when I entered a shopping mall. That's when I realized I couldn't just tough it out, I couldn't fix it myself." hose are the words of a former U.S. Army medic, a veteran of what are euphemistically called "mass casualties" in Fallujah and Najaf, Iraq. He's asked to remain anonymous for reasons of job security: No matter how sympathetic employers may appear to be, he says, once they learn of the severity and rigors of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and treatment, a "we'll tolerate it as long as it's not disruptive" caveat tends to kick in. But his recollections of nightmares, shakes, and sle...